http://www.personneltoday.com/en-gbFri, 10 Oct 2008 16:42:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47893/friday-podcast-conservatives-blast-health-and-safety-regulations-and-best-places-to-work-in-hr-2008.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47893/friday-podcast-conservatives-blast-health-and-safety-regulations-and-best-places-to-work-in-hr-2008.html </SPFri, 10 Oct 2008 16:42:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47877/anti-red-tape-campaign-to-be-launched-by-tories.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47877/anti-red-tape-campaign-to-be-launched-by-tories.html The government will come under pressure to cut workplace health and safety regulations this autumn, Personnel Today has learned. Shadow work and pensiFri, 10 Oct 2008 16:40:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47892/met-police-hr-director-defends-you-people-comment.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47892/met-police-hr-director-defends-you-people-comment.html Martin Tiplady has insisted he did not mean any offence by using the phrase "you people" during talks with the Met Black Police Association (MBPFri, 10 Oct 2008 16:35:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47880/data-theft-risk-posed-by-it-staff-made-redundant-in-economic-downturn.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47880/data-theft-risk-posed-by-it-staff-made-redundant-in-economic-downturn.html A data security expert has called for senior IT staff made redundant as a result of the economic downturn to be placed on gardening leave to stop them walking off with potentially damaging information. <P align=lefFri, 10 Oct 2008 15:38:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47891/bus-staff-strike-over-pay-as-metroline-defends-offer.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47891/bus-staff-strike-over-pay-as-metroline-defends-offer.html London bus company Metroline believes it did all it could to avoid its staff striking today. While in talks with trade union Unite yesterday, Metroline offered its staff a 4% pay increase. But no agreFri, 10 Oct 2008 15:31:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47890/ministry-of-defence-loses-personal-details-of-armed-forces-staff.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47890/ministry-of-defence-loses-personal-details-of-armed-forces-staff.html The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has lost personal details of about 100,000 Armed Forces employees after a computer hard drive went missing. IT contractor EDS informed the MoD about the missing hard driFri, 10 Oct 2008 14:32:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47889/prison-service-must-improve-relations-with-muslim-inmates.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47889/prison-service-must-improve-relations-with-muslim-inmates.html The Prison Service needs to "urgently" improve how staff deal with Muslim inmates, the chief inspector of prisons has warned. After a <A href="http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprisons/latest-press-releases/press-Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:43:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47888/emergency-measures-for-credit-crunch-job-losses-revealed.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47888/emergency-measures-for-credit-crunch-job-losses-revealed.html The government is preparing for huge job losses because of the economic crisis, with emergency plans revealed yesterday. Speaking at a conference for Jobcentre Plus staff, <A href="http://www.dwp.govFri, 10 Oct 2008 12:22:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47887/best-places-to-work-in-hr-winners-announced.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47887/best-places-to-work-in-hr-winners-announced.html It's official. Motability Operations is the best place to work in HR in the UK, after it picked upFri, 10 Oct 2008 10:55:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47867/skilled-migrant-rules-could-lead-to-uk-chef-shortage.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47867/skilled-migrant-rules-could-lead-to-uk-chef-shortage.html Hoteliers may struggle to find home-grown labour to replace low-skilled migrant workers when the new immigration system takes hold, HR directors have warned. By the end of November, <A href="http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:49:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47864/final-salary-pensions-on-last-legs-as-employers-plan-2012-switch.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47864/final-salary-pensions-on-last-legs-as-employers-plan-2012-switch.html Thousands of employers with defined contribution pension schemes will close them to new members when the personal accounts system launches in 2012, according to a study. <A href="http://www.napf.co.uk/Publications/researchFri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47861/management-now-thankless-task-as-polite-society-becomes-thing-of-past.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47861/management-now-thankless-task-as-polite-society-becomes-thing-of-past.html Managers are worse at saying 'thank you' than they were 10 years ago, according to a survey. A poll of 1,088 workers by business consultancy Maritz found UK businesses were split between 'thankers' and 'thank nots'. Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:40:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47875/inspiring-the-kyle-generation-chris-graylings-plans-for-welfare-reform.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47875/inspiring-the-kyle-generation-chris-graylings-plans-for-welfare-reform.html Forget Generation Y - the future of UK business hinges on the "Jeremy Kyle generation", according to shadow work and pensions secretary Chris Grayling. </STRONGFri, 10 Oct 2008 07:18:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47858/pizza-hut-staff-get-taste-of-the-future-as-firm-serves-up-rebranding-exercise.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47858/pizza-hut-staff-get-taste-of-the-future-as-firm-serves-up-rebranding-exercise.html All 16,000 Pizza Hut staff have tasted the restaurant chain's new dishes as part of their training for its transformation to Pasta Hut, HR director Jayne Little</STFri, 10 Oct 2008 07:01:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47863/equal-pay-audits-shunned-by-private-sector.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47863/equal-pay-audits-shunned-by-private-sector.html A quarter of private sector firms believe equal pay audits are "unnecessary", according to research by Personnel Today's sister publication Industrial Relations Services (IRS). Of 103 emploFri, 10 Oct 2008 00:01:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/09/47859/agenda-for-change-court-challenge-could-lead-to-flood-of-equal-pay-claims.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/09/47859/agenda-for-change-court-challenge-could-lead-to-flood-of-equal-pay-claims.html A tribunal case that could lead to more than 13,700 equal pay claims against the NHS Agenda for Change pay system is under way. The test case, <EThu, 09 Oct 2008 12:38:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/09/47860/training-budget-surveys-serve-up-wildly-different-responses-to-downturn.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/09/47860/training-budget-surveys-serve-up-wildly-different-responses-to-downturn.html Two recent surveys of' training budgets at UK organisations reached sThu, 09 Oct 2008 12:06:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/09/47857/international-assignments-could-cost-the-earth-but-firms-are-in-the-dark.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/09/47857/international-assignments-could-cost-the-earth-but-firms-are-in-the-dark.html Employers are failing to comprehensively measure the costs and return on investment (ROI) for staff sent on international assignments, a report has warned. Benefits consultancy Mercer's <A href="http://www.imercer.com/deThu, 09 Oct 2008 11:09:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/09/47856/more-jobs-for-women-as-european-states-add-22-million-new-vacancies.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/09/47856/more-jobs-for-women-as-european-states-add-22-million-new-vacancies.html The are 'more and better' jobs across Europe with women workers the main beneficiaries, according to a report by the European Foundation of the ImThu, 09 Oct 2008 11:04:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/09/47855/lesbian-sex-taunts-nothing-compared-to-suffering-of-the-jews-tribunal-hears.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/09/47855/lesbian-sex-taunts-nothing-compared-to-suffering-of-the-jews-tribunal-hears.html A lesbian couple who complained of being "humiliated" by sexual taunts from work colleagues were told that their suffering was nothing compared to that of the Jews, a tribunal has heard. Saleswomen Beth Moules and SharleenThu, 09 Oct 2008 11:01:00 GMT